Acclaimed Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho has announced that he’s heading back into zombie filmmaking territory with his next project, titled Gunche. The announcement comes as the South Korean filmmaker prepares to release his Netflix film Revelations.

Jun Ji-hyun, Go Soo, Ji Chang-wook and Koo Kyo-hwan will star in Gunche, which has entered production. Distributed by Showbox, the film’s English title has yet to be announced, but “gunche” in Korean means “colony” in the biological sense of the word.

Distributor Showbox, via Deadline, refers to the upcoming film as “the culmination of Yeon Sang-ho’s universe, spanning from Train to Busan to Peninsula.”

Yeon Sang-ho’s hit zombie movie Train to Busan released in 2016, and was followed by the animated prequel Seoul Station and later, the 2020 live action sequel Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula. He returned to helm both follow-up projects.

Yeon has also been active in the television realm, working on a number of horror series including The Cursed, Hellbound, Monstrous, The Bequeathed, and Parasyte: The Grey.

Gunche is expected to land in cinemas sometime next year. Yeon will release Revelations via Netflix on March 21st, a film executive produced by Alfonso Cuaron. The film follows a pastor and a detective who team up for a missing persons case. The director will also premiere The Ugly later this year, which is based on Yeon’s own 2018 graphic novel of the same name.

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